Crime Blog

A Dallas police officer has been recommended for termination after being arrested on accusations of driving while intoxicated and fleeing from the scene of an accident in Forney.

The recommendation that Officer Kelly Schumpert be fired came during a disciplinary hearing Thursday. Police Chief David Brown will make the final decision on his employment.

Schumpert, 28, told internal affairs investigators that in the hours before he was arrested Feb. 8 that he drank beer while having dinner and playing pool with a friend. He said he fell asleep for several hours at the friend’s home before waking up to drive himself home.

“I was not intoxicated and I felt no impairment mentally or physically from the alcohol I drank,” Schumpert wrote in his internal affairs statement.
Another motorist told police that he saw Schumpert’s Nissan Frontier coming straight at him. At the last moment, he said Schumpert’s truck scraped the side of his vehicle before speeding away. The motorist turned around and began following Schumpert as he contacted the authorities.

“He is passing cars in ditches,” the motorist said, according to a transcript of the 911 recording. “He hit me. He was coming head on head to me. … I honked my horn at him and he jerked over a little bit and side swiped my car.”

A Forney police officer stopped Schumpert on FM 741, just south of Interstate 20.

Forney police officer Steven Stewart wrote in his report that Schumpert smelled strongly of alcohol, slurred his speech and that he had to repeat his commands more than once to get Schumpert to comply.

He wrote that he asked Schumpert about the accident and why he didn’t stop. He said Schumpert told him that he didn’t see it.

According to police records, an in-car video shows that Schumpert at one point told the Stewart that the other car had hit him. Stewart told him that he was still required to stop.